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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Скопление галактик Гидры](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/19/0001167636/hydra_aat116.preview.jpg)
16.04.2001
The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies contains well over 100 bright galaxies - but perhaps fewer galaxies than might be expected from its mass. Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe.
![Дифракционные лучи, или Когда звезды выглядят крестами](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/16/0001167539/m8hal_hst_big.preview.jpg)
15.04.2001
Unusual appendages around bright stars are commonplace, but never seem to be mentioned. What are they? First, a telescope brings starlight falling over a large area to a small area. To get at this...
![Человек выходит в космос](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/15/0001167524/gagarin_msfc.preview.jpg)
14.04.2001
Forty years ago, on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human in space. His remotely controlled Vostok 1 spacecraft lofted him to an altitude of 200 miles and carried him once around planet Earth. Gagarin was strictly a passenger on this flight.
![GRB010222: рентгеновское послесвечение гамма-всплеска](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/14/0001167487/grb010222_cxc.preview.jpg)
13.04.2001
A fading afterglow from one of the most powerful explosions in the universe is centered in this false color image from the spacebased Chandra X-ray Observatory. The cosmic explosion, an enormously bright gamma-ray burst (GRB), originated in a galaxy billions of light-years away and was detected by the BeppoSAX satellite on February 22.
![STS-1: Первый запуск шаттла](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/13/0001167432/columbia_sts1.preview.jpg)
12.04.2001
On April 12, 1981, twenty years ago today, the Space Shuttle Columbia became the first shuttle to orbit the Earth. In this gorgeous time exposure, flood lights play on the Columbia and service structures (left) as it rests atop Complex 39's Pad A at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for first launch.
![Большая группа солнечных пятен AR 9393](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/11/0001167405/marchspot_csm.preview.gif)
11.04.2001
The largest sunspot group of the past ten years crossed the surface of the Sun late last month and early this month. The group was designated Active Region 9393 as it was the 9393rd region identified since counting officially began in 1973.
![M51: пыль и звезды галактики Водоворот](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/11/0001167403/m51_hst.preview.jpg)
10.04.2001
The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic spiral galaxy. At only 30 million light years distant and fully 60 thousand light years across, M51, also known as NGC 5194, is one of the brightest and most picturesque galaxies on the sky.
!["Марс Одиссей" отправляется к Марсу](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/10/0001167398/blastoffodyssey_ksc.preview.jpg)
9.04.2001
Next stop: Mars. On Saturday the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on a path to enter orbit around Mars in late October. Pictured above, a Delta II rocket lifted...
![Большая корона](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/09/0001167345/corona99_espanek_big.preview.jpg)
8.04.2001
Most photographs don't adequately portray the magnificence of the Sun's corona. Seeing the corona first-hand during a total solar eclipse is best. The human eye can adapt to see features and extent that photographic film usually cannot. Welcome, however, to the digital age.
![Стерео-Солнце](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/04/08/0001167338/stereo9393_vantuyne.preview.jpg)
7.04.2001
This week's stereo offering features the now famous Active Region 9393, the largest sunspot group in the last 10 years. Viewed with red/blue glasses, the stereo pair of images merges into one 3D representation of the Sun with AR9393 above and right of center.
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